Directors : Rob Minkoff (Stuart Little, Lion King)
Casting : Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Micheal Angarano, Crystal Liu, Collin Chou
Action/Fantasy
Review :
After many years of waiting, the two best Hong Kong Martial-Arts superstars, Jackie Chan and Jet Li, which eventually turned into Hollywood, finally came together head to head in a movie — The Forbidden Kingdom.
Despite the seemingly silly storyline, The Forbidden Kingdom reverts to a story of a bullied American kid from Boston, Jason (Micheal Angarano) that’s deeply in love with martial arts, he found a legendary staff of The Monkey King and eventually travelled back to Ancient China on a mission to return the staff to its long lost owner, the whole movie has been brought alive with the butt-kicking action fights by Jackie Chan and Jet Li.
Just as Jason sets upon his sacred mission, he encounters 3 companions whom supported him during his journey, Lu Yan (Jackie Chan), a martial-arts drunkard, The Priest (Jet Li), and also The Golden Sparrow (Collin Chou), a beautiful musician specialized in martial-arts. With all these difficulties along the journey, will Jason be able to accomplish his mission..?
This movie is very entertaining to watch with family members as the story is built in such a way that even a small kid can understand, and most importantly to note is its fantasy-like storyline that makes up the whole value of this movie. However, The Forbidden Kingdom is levitated to another level whereby the thrilling fighting scenes starred by the Jackie Chan and Jet Li duel delivered through the audiences, and eventually got some good applauds from them.
